The Department of Physics at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) invites outstanding applicants for a tenure-track position starting late August 2021. Candidates at both the Assistant Professor and Associate Professor level will be considered. The faculty member will serve as a role model and be a leader in helping to further increase and retain TCNJ’s growing number of women physics majors. TCNJ was awarded a prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Professorship by the Henry Luce Foundation. This award may be used to support this position. The Clare Boothe Luce professorship provides exceptional support for career development in teaching and research, including a combination of summer salary, funding for summer research students, travel funding, and discretionary funding. For more information on the Clare Boothe Luce Professorship, please see https://www.hluce.org/programs/clare-boothe-luce-program/.

The online application for this position can be found here: https://tcnj.taleo.net/careersection/00_ex_faculty/jobdetail.ftl?job=20001172&tz=GMT-04%3A00&tzname=America%2FNew_York.  Please contact physics@tcnj.edu with any questions.

Dr. Nathan Magee, one of the Physics department’s Geophysics professors, is involved in the successful procurement of the New Jersey Sea Grant by Project SEA: Science, Education, and Action.  The grant will provide funding for new NGSS-aligned curriculum over the course of two years, with total funding equaling approximately $140,000.  The project is a collaboration with the TCNJ School of Education, TCNJ School of Science, and the Save Barnegat Bay foundation to design, test, and implement a new Ocean Science curriculum (for late elementary-middle grades) that includes up-to-date pedagogy, modern climate science, and a focus on New Jersey/Mid-Atlantic coastal issues.

The Physics Department has recently been awarded the prestigious Clare Boothe Luce grant, which will allow the department to hire a new woman Physics professor.  Since its first grants in 1989, the Clare Boothe Luce Program has become one of the single most significant sources of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering in higher education in the United States. The College of New Jersey Physics department was one of only two colleges to receive this grant this year, the other being Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.  The search is slated to begin in the Fall 2020 semester.  Please see the below links for more information on this exciting award: